Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

The hall suddenly fell silent, and the chirping of crickets in the grass outside could be clearly heard.

Zhang He stared blankly at Liu Shi, with countless doubts in his heart.Not to mention that she was only 19 years old, even though she had been married to Xia Jiniang for a year and had no children, she did not show any urgency, why did Liu suddenly propose to let her adopt a child?

Xia Jiniang had the same doubts. Ordinary people would usually care about why they didn't move, instead of directly proposing adoption.A horrifying thought flashed through her mind: Could it be that Auntie knew Erlang's identity?

Seeing that the faces of the two were very different, Mrs. Liu explained: "Your fourth uncle had a granddaughter a while ago. He felt that it would be difficult to raise the child, so he wanted to send it to the Salesian Bureau."

The Salesian Bureau is an orphanage established by the imperial court. Due to the serious phenomenon of patriarchy, newborn baby girls are often abandoned. The imperial court cannot stop these people from killing infants, so it can only use this method to protect female babies.

This is not just a situation in the countryside, it is even more serious in rich and official households, and the bad ones will drown female babies, or send them to the Salesian Bureau.However, the government also allows these families to recognize such baby girls in the future, and also allows others to adopt these children.

Zhang He understood her intentions after Liu's words. It turned out that she couldn't see her fourth uncle sending his granddaughter to the Salesian Bureau, and also saw that she and Xia Jiniang had no children, so they came up with such a plan.

Although Xia Jiniang still had doubts in her heart, she wanted to know what was going on with the child. She asked, "Fourth uncle decided to send the child to the Sales Office?"

Zhang He's fourth uncle was named Zhang Qi, who was also born to a concubine and the youngest brother of Zhang He's grandfather.None of the men in the Zhang family seemed to live long, and the only one who lived to nearly sixty was Zhang Qi.

Zhang Qi had two sons and a daughter, and the eldest son Zhang Gao also had two sons and a daughter. As for the second son Zhang Pu, he gave birth to several daughters, all of which were sent away by him.Nearly forty years old, he still has no son so far, so he already planned to let Zhang Gao adopt a son, but his wife was pregnant again, and he waited for October, only to find out that he was giving birth to a daughter again, so he planned to give birth to another son. send away.

Compared with most people who choose to kill their children, it is considered compassionate for him to send the child to the Salesian Bureau, but when Liu saw Zhang He, he remembered that it might not be a problem for Zhang He to raise a child now.

Zhang He scratched his head: "But I won't take care of such a small child!" She had already taken great pains to take care of Zhang Xian, let alone a newborn.

Xia Jiniang took Xia Jin, but the problem is that the child was born not long ago and still needs to be fed. How did she get breast milk if she had never given birth to a child?Thinking of this, she also had trouble.

"If you don't want to, that's all." Liu said.

Zhang He was indeed unwilling, so he didn't want to defend himself.She was worried that she and Xia Jiniang would not be able to take care of the child well, and if the child suffered from some ailment that could not be cured by the current level of medical treatment, she would probably suffer from it for the rest of her life.

After Xia Jiniang and Zhang He returned to the room, she always felt that Liu Shi was a little strange. Recently, she seemed to be more concerned about Zhang He than before, so she asked Zhang He: "Don't Erlang think that Auntie is a little strange?"

"It's a little strange." Zhang He said.

"When Erlang got along with Aunt before, would Aunt be like this?"

Zhang He's scalp was numb, and she was afraid that others would ask her about her original body. She said vaguely, "I rarely saw her before. Compared to before, I think she is better to get along with now."

"How did Erlang hide his identity before?" Xia Jiniang asked again.

Zhang He recalled her first month of life, including during her menstrual period, almost no one set foot in her room, and she washed her own clothes by hand.The concubine's son was not treated like a servant, and Zhang He felt that he was lucky to do it himself and have enough food and clothing.

In this way, Xia Jiniang found that there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.It is precisely because no one treats Zhang He as a young master, and there is not even a waiter around him, that he successfully concealed his daughter's identity.

"I hope I'm overthinking it!" Xia Jiniang said softly.

"What are you thinking about? What did Niang think of?" Zhang He asked hurriedly.

"Isn't Erlang boasting that he is smart? Guess what!" Xia Jiniang teased Zhang He with a smile.

"..." Zhang He thought for a while, and said, "Is Niang Ji wondering if she knows my identity?"

Xia Jiniang was secretly surprised, and said with a smile: "Erlang is the roundworm in my stomach, he knows what I'm thinking?"

"I'm not a roundworm. I'm the one in your heart, the one in your heart." Zhang He pointed to Xia Jiniang's chest.

Xia Jiniang held back her sweet smile from the heart, and said, "Okay, okay, you are my sweetheart, why does my sweetheart think that Auntie is still so calm after knowing your identity?"

Zhang He didn't think so: "Mother definitely doesn't know, if she knew, why would she allow me to marry you? If you don't know my identity, wouldn't I delay you by doing this?"

"Maybe she thought you delayed me, so she prepared a generous dowry for you to compensate me?"

Zhang He shook his head and said, "It's impossible. She didn't discover the reason why I didn't expose my identity. Mother Ji, let's stop thinking about it. Mother said that we should adopt a child. What do you think?"

"It depends on whether Erlang likes children or not."

"If you like it, I will like it."

Xia Jiniang saw that she was so perfunctory, so she didn't continue this topic.

The next day, before Zhang He returned to Qinghe Village, Zhang He asked Mrs. Liu about the last potato. Mrs. Liu had already had someone try planting some in the vegetable garden not far from Zhang's mansion, but because of the wrong season, only Zhang He dictated If the planting method is different, the potatoes grown will have many problems.

Zhang He said: "Dongyue, I'll harvest the potatoes and then germinate them. Mom might as well send someone to get some back and plant them. I've already figured out some ways to plant them. It won't be a problem next time."

"En." Liu Shi slightly nodded.

With the carriage, the time from Fuzhou City to Qinghe Village was greatly shortened. Including the rest time on the road, it only took more than half an hour.The only thing that Xia Jiniang and Zhang Xian complained about was that the speed of the carriage was faster than that of the ox cart and the donkey cart, and the bumps were even worse.

Xia Jiniang managed to get used to riding a horse the day before yesterday, but after returning today, she had to be careful when sitting.Zhang He was already used to riding a donkey, and the discomfort disappeared within a day.She thought that maybe a shock absorption function could be added to the car, so that people would be less bumpy after sitting on it.

Zhang He thought of a four-wheeled carriage, but there was no steering device at the time, so the four-wheeled carriage was generally used to transport goods and rarely used for carrying people.As for the simple steering device, Zhang He can still make it. As long as a pivot device connected to the chassis is installed on the common shaft of the two front wheels, the front wheels can be turned as much as possible to achieve the effect of turning.

As for shock absorption, in addition to using the traditional Chinese "Futu", cowhide and leather can also be used to wrap the wheels.In addition, she can make a board similar to a camp bed and fix it on the carriage.

The board of the camp bed is the easiest to make. You only need to weave a net with rope or bamboo and rattan on four solid wooden blocks, then fill some straw inside, and finally add a soft cushion to the bed.Because of the hollow in the middle, there are straw and cushions, forming a triple shock absorption, even if it is bumpy, it will not be too uncomfortable.

In his spare time, Zhang He collected these materials and built a shock-absorbing plate that was smaller than a cart, and then began to think about the steering device.But even if she knows how to make a steering device, she still needs to be precise in some details, and this requires her to constantly improve.

Xia Jiniang found that since she had no worries about food and clothing, she began to think about some utensils like Qiu San, and from the structure diagrams she drew, it can be seen that she is already proficient in these.

But for many people, these utensils that Zhang He pondered can only be regarded as a way for the rich and powerful to enjoy, and they have no time to think about them.As for the installation of steering gear on the carriage, they considered it superfluous.

Zhang He didn't intend to allow these to enter the lives of the people like the improvement of agricultural equipment. It is really useless for many people to install steering devices on horse-drawn carts, because the donkey carts and ox carts they use will never be different. Fast speed, low risk.

But the four-wheeled carriage can not only reduce the burden on the horse, but also when the carriage is running fast, there is such a steering device, which can avoid the danger of turning over due to difficulty in steering.

As the steering device of the carriage was continuously improved, the weather was getting colder and colder, and everyone had already put on winter clothes before they knew it.

Zhang He rubbed his hands, let out another breath of white air, and walked on the field ridge covered with cold dew.Making the steering device is only something she spends time thinking about in her spare time, and farming is still her main job right now.

Now that it's winter, her field only has two acres of potatoes, ten acres of autumn soybeans, and more than half an acre of sweet potatoes, and the rest of the land is vacant.It is more than enough for five people to take care of the ten acres of crops. Apart from some daily care and deep plowing, they are more relaxed than when they are busy.

When Zhang He visited the potato field, only Liu Dashan and Song Shi were busy in the field.It's not that the other three are lazy, but that they are in charge of taking care of the bean fields. Liu Dashan and Song are in charge of the potato fields and sweet potato fields because they are familiar with Zhang He's field affairs.

"Lang Jun, be well!"

"Yeah." Zhang He responded, and asked again, "Has the potato grown well?"

"Just dug a few piles, sir, look!" Liu Dashan and Mrs. Song held a few potatoes still stained with soil and handed them to Zhang He, and said, "According to Langjun's order, dig a few potatoes everywhere. But the results are not much different. There are seven or eight of them!"

Zhang He picked up one of them and weighed it. The potato was half the size of a palm, with even skin, and there were no traces of ladybugs or aphids gnawing on it.But this is normal, after all, the potato seeds in her system have a certain anti-virus ability.

"Let's dig it out in two days," Zhang He said.

Liu Dashan was slightly surprised: "Your Majesty, I've dug it all up, and I won't be able to finish it in a short time, won't it sprout?"

Zhang He naturally knows that it will germinate if it is left for too long, and what she needs is for it to germinate, so that it can expand the planting area in the coming year.Although potatoes have not been popularized yet, and there is not much market, but crops like potatoes and sweet potatoes are not a bad thing, and she still has system warehouses available.

"What about the potato?" Song asked again.

"The sweet potatoes probably haven't grown well yet. When they grow well, they will be dug out as well. If you dig too slowly, they may be damaged by freezing."

"Okay." These crops were cultivated by Zhang He, and she knew better than them, so they couldn't say much.

Zhang He saw that there was nothing he needed his help for, so he planned to go back, but suddenly remembered Xia Jiniang's warning, she turned her head and said, "Yes, you all come to my house at noon, get your wages and celebrate the winter solstice."

When Liu Dashan heard this, he was unhappy instead of worried, and hurriedly said: "We just need to get paid, as for the ceremony, we can't ask for it."

Zhang He suddenly remembered that Liu Dashan was put on by Li Xun last year because of boxing gifts, and his family was almost ruined. He was afraid that he had left a psychological shadow, and he never dared to easily believe that they would give him boxing gifts so kindly.

She understood Liu Dashan, but she also had the feeling of being a donkey with good intentions. Liu Dashan regarded her and Xia Jiniang as people like Li Xun, how could she not be depressed?

Seeing that Zhang He's expression was very different, Mrs. Song hurriedly slapped Liu Dashan, and smiled at Zhang He: "Thank you sir, sir and lady treated us so well, we will go and get it later!"

Zhang He nodded and said nothing more.Behind him, Mrs. Song poked Liu Dashan's head again and cursed in a low voice: "Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey? We have been taking care of the farm for the husband for so long, why did the husband and wife treat us badly? He said to give us a gift , that must not be false.”

Liu Dashan was so scolded that he had no room to retaliate, and now the Song family was getting tougher and tougher on some important matters and decisions, and he didn't even think about buying some fields after earning money to cultivate them.

The author has something to say: Brother Donkey: I can finally go back to my job.

(The dialogue between the two can recall the details of Liu's first appearance and before and after marriage)